Paroles de I Ain't No Joke
Rakim
I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke.
Now i slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.
When I'm gone, no one gets on, cuz I won't let, nobody press up and mess up the scene I set.
I like to stand in the crowd and watch the people wonder, damn.
But think about it then you'll understand, I'm just an addict addicted to music, maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it.
Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm
I hook a beat up convert it into hip-hop form.
Write a rhyme in graffitti in, every show you see me in, deep concentration cause I'm no comeadian.
Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed, I treat you like a child and you're gonna be named.
Another enemy, not even a friend of me.
Cuz you'll be fried in the end when pretend to be, competing.
Cause I just your mind on pause.
And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme with yours.
I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned.
Remember me
The one you got your idea from?
But soon you start to suffer, the tune'll get rougher, when you start to stutter, that's when you've had enough of.
Biting it will make you choke, you can't provoke, you can't cope, you should have broke because I ain't no joke.
(2)
I got a question, as serious as cancer.
Who can keep the average dancer, hyper as a heart attack, nobody's smiling.
Causeyou're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling.
This is what we all sit down to write, you can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite.
Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits.
Get the style down pat, then it's time to switch.
Put my tape on pause, and add some more to yours.
Then you figure, you're ready for the neighborhood tours.
The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be, when you come up to speak don't even lie to me.
You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate.
Then change the rhyme around that can aggravate me.
So when you see me come up freeze.
Or you'll be one of those 7 emcees.
They think that I'm a new jack, but only if they knew that.
They who think wrong are they who can't do that.
Style that I'm Doing, they might ruin.
Patterns of paragraphs based on you and.
Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play sound familiar, I'll wait til E say.
Play 'em, so Imma have to dis and broke, you could get a smack for this.
I ain't no joke.
(3)
I hold the microphone like a grudge.
B'llb hold the record so the needle don't budge.
I hold a conversation, cause when I invent, I nominated my DJ the president.
When I emcee I, puush to freestyle, going steadily.
So pucker up and whistle my melody.
But whatever you do, don't miss one there'll be another rough rhyme after this one.
Before you know it, you're following and fiending, waiting for the punchline, to get a meaning.
Like before, the middle of my story i'm telling.
Nobody beats the R so stop yelling, save it.
Put it in your pocket for later.
Cause I'm moving the crowd, and B a record fader.
No interuptions when the mic is broke, when I'm gone.
Then you can joke.
Cause everything is real on a serious tip, keep playing, and I get furious quick, and I'll take you for a walk through hell.
Freeze your dome.
Then watch you eyeballs swell.
Guide you outta triple-stage darkness.
When it gets dark again.
Then Imma spark this, microphone cause the heat is on.
You see smoke and I'm finished when the beat is gone, I'm no joke.
(End)
InterprèteRakim
LabelUMI
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